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| 2008 INVENTION (2) / 1 September - 28 October Rebecca Birch, Alex Hudson, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Rob Smith City Gallery Off-Site Projects, Leicester All Saints, High Cross Street, Leicester, LE1 4PH, (1-20 September) (Thursday - Saturday 2-6pm) - Rob Smith & Rebecca Birch Upstairs, The City Gallery, 90 Granby Street, Leicester, LE1 1DJ, 1-20 September (Tuesday – Saturday 12-6pm) - Alex Hudson Phoenix Arts, 21 Upper Brown Street, Leicester LE1 5TE (1September-28October) (daily 12-8pm) - Matthew Lutz-Kinoy City Gallery Off-Site Projects is pleased to present Invention (2), an exhibition that draws together the work of artists, Rebecca Birch, Alex Hudson, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and Rob Smith. The exhibition explores contemporary considerations of the landscape through video, performance, painting and sculpture, and extends a dialogue between the artists established during Invention (1) at the Nunnery, London in 2006. In addition to new works by each of the artists, a mediated digital version of each of the works will be shown on a single multi-screen projection at City Gallery, and also broadcast live on the internet A 56 page catalogue with texts by Lisa Le Feuvre, Ed Krcma, and James English Leary is available on request Press Articles: AN Magazine >> |  |
1/8_>> | Installation view of Invention (2) (2008) |
| Rebecca Birch’s film Great Northern (2008), shown at All Saints, exposes the instability and temporality of the landscape. Birch constructs an abstract picture, a multi-layered mental mapping of the landscape of the Canadian North and the town of Inuvik, from descriptions offered by the people that live with and, interact with it daily. Beyond oral tradition, anecdotal retelling, and pictorial representation, the work focuses on gestures and body language made during conversation, gestures that reconstruct the physicality of the landscape through unconscious action. Shown within a specially constructed cabin Birch’s film uncovers the intricate set of social and political dynamics at play within the remote territory of Inuvik. Both historically grounded and in a constant state of flux the work charts a shifting landscape, defined by its people, the changing seasons, and 21st century technological advance. Alex Hudson’s new series of paintings disclose momentary encounters within the landscape, of an historic, cultural and urban order. The works occupy spaces of transition, of periphery and margin. They depict details of public spaces, glimpses, within the city of Florence, most notably of the interior of Churches and current artisan studios, depicting moments of contemporary shift, of restoration, alteration and rebuild, that each serve to collapse historic, social and political timeframes between the past and the present. Painted in sepia tones the works refuse to indulge the spectre and magnificence to which their subject alludes, instead they de-saturate and decenter the differential of landscape and encounter between the present and the past. Matthew Lutz-Kinoy’s works explore a personal and physical relationship with the landscape and more specifically to the environment both of indoor and outdoor space. His work DONTCHANGEDONTGO.FREEZE (2008) is a new performance realised for video and for Invention (2), and is one that expands Lutz-Kinoy’s exploration of physical movement, of colour and dance. Incorporating passages of contemporary dance Kinoy constructs a series of abstract narrative interventions that inform and reconstitute the architectural spaces in which he performs. Also presented is Won’t (2006) a colourfield configuration of geometric bunting that through minimal means animates a considered physical space. Rob Smith presents the sculptural work Kite Sound (2008), a reconfiguration of the work shown at Invention (1) in 2006. The work exists in two parts, both sections existing as physical objects of equivalent scale, one a screen and one a multi-drum amplifier. The work tracks the shifting levels of wind across the local landscape, a kite flown by the artist transfers vibrations along its line and these are recorded as sound at ground level through a series of amplifying drums. Smith then feeds this sound track back into a video loop of the flying kite to generate a pitched soundtrack that dictates the frame rate at which the video is played back. In creating a circular system Smith creates an animation of the landscape driven by the natural forces that govern it. In addition Smith presents One minute Animation (Six 2.4 meter lengths) (2008) a series of six horizontal beams each divided into an equal number of marked lines. A single photograph taken at each division across all the beams creates an animation lasting one minute. NOTES: A map compiled by Rebecca Birch is available as a guide to the three sites of the exhibition. For all press enquiries please contact: Eric.Rosoman@leicester.gov.uk / +44 (0)116 223 2060 Invention (1) was at the Nunnery, London (22 October – 04 November 2006) Full details can be found on: www.inventionofsiltude.org A 56 page catalogue with texts by Lisa Le Feuvre, Ed Krcma, and James English Leary is available on request, please contact City Gallery, Leicester on: city.gallery@leicester.gov.uk / +44 (0)116 223 2060 Invention (1) and Invention (2) has been kindly supported by the Arts Council England, Axis Arts and the Slade School of Fine Art |